familiar with movies, and seems to have seen similar content somewhere , but because I saw part of it at ARTE a few years ago, I always felt that it was because of that. I saw that I was deeply attracted by the experience of these war reporters. The last two When they finally met, they were moved to tears (although I didn't like the role of the New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg in the movie).
I didn’t think Dith Pran’s name was so familiar until I put the subtitles. I checked my previous reading notes and it turned out that it was the New York Times reporter that Raymond Depardon met when he was writing "From New York." Raymond Depardon sent it in July 1981. The footnote to the fourth photo of the Liberation News column read: "This morning I went out with a photographer, a New York Times reporter, Cambodian Dith Pran. On the subway to Harlem on 116th Street, he told me about it. Cambodia, rice fields, and four years with the Khmer Rouge... "I'm not a prisoner, but it's worse. "He speaks French very softly and shyly. His wife and four children live in Brooklyn, and the rest of the family have been killed. He has been working in the New York Times for a year. We also talked about photography. Sylvain Julienne, Sou Vichith, Gilles Caron..."
Raymond Depardon has done war reports in Algeria, Vietnam, Chad, Beirut and other places. The few people they talked about were all journalists who disappeared during the Cambodian war. Sou Vichith is also Cambodian. He is Depardon’s colleague at Gamma Photo Agency. Gilles Caron is Depardon’s co-founder at Gamma. He disappeared near Phnom Penh with two other French journalists in 70 years. Depardon and Dith Pran met in 1981. Judging from the time when the movie ended, Dith Pran only returned to the United States for more than a year. Depardon saw this movie only a few years later and found out: The Cambodian who was described in the movie was the photojournalist who had worked with him for a day.
The Killing Fields is cruel and true. Depardon also referred to this movie as a record. I thought it was a documentary at one time. I saw a photo of Dith Pran taken by Depardon in the book "From New York". A thin Cambodian man with a camera hung around his neck, his face is just like an ordinary Southeast Asian man, but his brows are slightly frowned, and his eyes seem to have countless experiences, etc. After watching the movie and then watching the phrase "Cambodia, the rice fields, and the Khmer Rouge together for four years", the plain words and the cruel picture contrast made him feel that the suffering he suffered in the Khmer Rouge was more than just what he suffered in the movie. The current scenes, but those are enough to make people startling.
After Dith Pran left the New York Times, he established a project to recognize the massacre during the Khmer Rouge. He commented on himself,
"Part of my life is saving life. I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices."
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